The full fledged TV season ends in about 2 months, but a lot of the cable shows are right in the middle of starting and stopping.
Helix just ended on Syfy, while it has all the glory of having a Syfy TV show budget, I think it was pretty successful in it’s debut season. Enough people tuned in to the Arctic base to what the CDC duke it out with shadowy corporations to get another season next year. It’s all set up to be a much bigger global setting and I look forward to seeing what they do. Quite a few deaths and a kidnapping and a mole leave a lot in play. Face Off is getting down to the last 3 episodes and I’m shocked Niko is still in it. He finally pulled off a really great creation to save him from bottom looks when it really mattered, but I don’t know if he’s going to make it again. The others constantly put out much better work than he does. Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge has started and it’s pretty cool. There’s already drama with a team who didn’t work too well together and the glimpses of future episodes show off some really cool looking creations.
The Walking Dead ends tomorrow and it’s been I think the strongest season. This last half especially. There’s been a good lack of stupid writing and with things looking up for the group with some reunions after the split, something awful is just waiting to pop off for the finale. By gut feeling is that Glen or Maggie aren’t going to make it to season 5.
Top Gear topped off a solid series with only 1 poor episode. The Burma trip continues their excellence in series “specials”. April is really big as Game of Thrones kicks off next weekend which a legion of people are waiting for. I’m in so I’m excited for it. A big shift in power and I really want to see how the dwindling Stark clan is going to stay alive. Mad Men is going to start it’s final season! Shame it’s been cut in half so the wait is going to be stretched needlessly, but I’m glad they are brining it in for a landing, feels like the right time. Orphan Black hits on the 19th on BBC America for season 2. Big fan of the first, the ads got me before it started and the show has proven to be a winner.
I also have my eye on The Stain from the mind and comic pages of Guillermo del Torro. Part plague (like Helix) /vampire outbreak that starts in NYC. That’s starting on FX in the summer I think, but coming up in April Fargo on FX. I just re-watched the great movie and the cast of the show leads me to believe that it could be really great too.